The diocese of Raska and Prizren, on the occasion of yesterday’s text in the Pristina Koha newspaper, announced that such writings “openly and openly spread ethnic and religious hatred towards the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija and towards their spiritual and cultural heritage.”
The diocese claims that the author of the text, history professor Bedri Muhadri, by way of open propaganda, without any argument confirmed by independent international historical sources, claims that the SOC shrines in this area are Arberian (Albanian) and allegedly not they are more than your usurped Roman Catholic Church. .
OBJECTIVE: erase all traces of Serbian
“The message is clear. The Serbian Orthodox Church must leave Kosovo and Metohija with their monks and their people and” liberate “their centuries-old shrines that must become Albanian monuments. In addition to the ethnic cleansing of 200,000 Serbs and non-Albanians from 1999, now is “More and more active denial and cleansing of the cultural identity of the Serbian people and our Church, in the eyes of the international community, with the aim of completely erasing every trace of Serbian existence that is seen here at every step of the centuries, “said the diocese.
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The diocese recalls that this pseudo-historical claim of Muhadri is not of recent origin, but has been continuously placed, especially in recent decades, by several Kosovo Albanian authors who see the SOC shrines as the greatest obstacle to the realization of the idea. of an ethnically pure Albanian Kosovo. “Although neither this nor any other Kosovo historian can explain why Albanian extremists so ruthlessly destroyed appropriate churches and monasteries, smashed crosses, dug Christian graves, desecrated crucifixes and icons, if they are already so proud of the Christian tradition,” said the diocese in a statement. Lack of respect for one’s assumptions Therefore, the laws of Kosovo and judicial decisions were recently one of the topics of the summit meeting between Belgrade and Pristina with the President of the United States, where all the signatories pledged to respect the religious freedoms and the rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church, according to the Diocese of Raska and Prizren.
It is emphasized that the Diocese and the entire Serbian Orthodox Church remain firmly convinced that our shrines in Kosovo and Metohija must not only be physically protected from violence and possible terrorist attacks, but especially from the increasingly aggressive institutional pressures and anarchy of Kosovo institutions and especially hate speech. it is being disseminated through some of the Kosovo media.
“Our Diocese has always been actively focused on building peace and dialogue, and that is why we especially address young Kosovar Albanians that the future must be built on tolerance, knowing and respecting others,” said the Diocese of Raska-Prizren in a statement.
